IUCN Status: Endangered
EPBC Threat Rating: High
IUCN Claim: “Introduced foxes and cats are known to prey on this species’”
Foxes hunt dibblers (Friend 2003). Friend (2003) also stated that dibbler decline coincides with fox establishment but no data was provided. Dibblers were detected after several years of an intensive poison-baiting campaign (Kinnear et al. 2002).
No studies
There are no studies evidencing a negative association between foxes
and dibbler populations that analyse data.
Friend T. 2003. Dibbler (Parantechinus apicalis) Recovery Plan July 2003–June 2013. Wildlife Management Program.
Kinnear, J. E., N. R. Sumner, and M. L. Onus. “The red fox in Australia—an exotic predator turned biocontrol agent.” Biological Conservation 108.3 (2002): 335-359.
Wallach et al. 2023 In Submission